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Two Indianapolis police officers had spent the day searching in vain for a missing baby in a stolen vehicle when they stopped to eat and gather their wits. A woman suspected of stealing the 2010 black Honda Accord had been taken into custody earlier that day, on December 22, but the vehicle was still missing. More urgently, baby Kason Thomass, who was in the car with his twin Kyair Thomass when it was stolen three days earlier in Columbus, Ohio, had yet to be found. “It was time for us to decompress because we were disappointed that we could not...

Socialist Left Police State S--t (if any one knows more polite legal terminology to adequately replace this expression, please tell me what it is) has ruined Australia's reputation as a free nation. If this tyranny becomes entrenched, Australia will grow weak and collapse, as threatens now in Jo Biden's America. (I know this phrase is offensive to many, but, legally or illegally, the guy does hold the White House as we speak.) The solution is truth. The solution is freedom. God bless beautiful Di, a former police woman in Australia's biggest state of New South Wales, who is now quite...

The newborn twins had died in cruelty, wrapped in brown paper and abandoned in a vermin-filled Bronx alley, but dozens of cops desperate to find out who killed them have made sure the babies had a final, peaceful farewell. Around 20 NYPD officers, mostly detectives, turned out at Eternity Funeral Service in the Williamsbridge section of The Bronx Saturday for a funeral they arranged in honor of the infants, whom they named Zeke and Zane. “Zeke is short for Ezekiel which means, ‘God’s strength,’ and Zane means ‘God’s Gift,’” said Lt. William O’Toole, a veteran homicide officer who said the...

Dramatic photos and video show two police officers from Pennsylvania rescuing a distressed 13-year-old Australian Shepherd from a deep mud pit on May 9. Willistown Township Police Department had to use wooden boards to get close to Pluto, whose head was barely visible above the thick muck. Although Pluto still walks with a limp and his fur remains matted, the vet reassured Shorr that the canine is going to be fine.

Jennifer is a 33-year-old single mother of three girls: Raven, 8, Sadie, 2, and Grace, 1. As is so often the case in this economic depression, times are tough for Jennifer. She is unemployed and on public assistance. Just before three o'clock on a Thursday afternoon, Jennifer and the girls arrived home to their apartment near 61st Place and Spaulding, only to find it ransacked by burglars. Predictably, the criminals swiped what cash they could get their grubby paws on, about $300 in rent money that was hidden. Also no surprise, they stole whatever electronics they could: a couple of...

Officer rescues dog from icy river Thursday, February 19, 2009 DEAN BOHN THE SAGINAW NEWS Barbara Sampson said she was hysterical when she called 911 and, through tears, screamed for help because ''my little boy'' had fallen through the ice. Tittabawassee Township Police Officer Raymond Loree arrived at 10 a.m. Sunday to find a Sheltie in the Tittabawassee River treading water in a hole in the ice, unable to get out. The ice would not support Loree, who waded in chest-high water to rescue the animal. ''He went above and beyond the call of duty,'' Sampson said of the rescue...

Two Texas border guards sentenced each to about a dozen years in prison have had their sentences commuted by former President George W. Bush in one of last official acts. But the campaign on their behalf is not yet over. In 2005 Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos shot drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks as he fled across the Rio Grande, away from an abandoned van load of marijuana, according to Associated Press reports. The two men, who did not report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up spent shell casings, were convicted...

President Bush, who apparently uses the same pen for veto’s and pardons, has given out 14 and commuted the sentences of 2 others. All were pretty much low level scumbags who pretty much hurt no one but themselves, but what about the border agents? Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., noted that the list also did not include former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of shooting a drug smuggler and trying to cover it up. Ramos and Compean are each serving sentences of more than 10 years for shooting Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks while...

A second former Border Patrol agent who received a lengthy sentence in a case involving the shooting of a fleeing drug smuggler has been resentenced to his original 11 years and a day in prison, as the agents' supporters hold out hope for presidential pardons. Ignacio Ramos got the same sentence two years ago when he was convicted in the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, an admitted, and now convicted, drug smuggler. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone gave Ramos' partner, Jose Alonso Compean, his original 12-year sentence, 10 years on a charge of using a weapon in...

As I noted in a post during the Republican convention in September, there was something fishy about the Republicans' use of the slogan "Country First" in the recent campaign. Why not "America First?" We got the answer the other day when the Bush administration continued its attack on the two U.S. Border Patrol agents who were sentenced to long jail terms for shooting and wounding a drug smuggler. The Bush Justice Department continued to go after the men this week and succeeded in an effort to prevent any significant reduction in the sentences of former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose...

(CNSNews.com) – In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is mulling whether to recommend a commutation for the two former Border Patrol agents jailed for more than a decade each for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks. The case is now before the DOJ’s Pardon Attorney Donald Rodgers. The Office of Pardon Attorney works in consultation with the attorney general’s office to assist the president, who has sole power of clemency in federal cases under the Constitution. Ultimately, it is the president’s call regardless of what the Office of Pardon Attorney recommends....

FReeper David Osborne - profiled on ABC News CH 27, Tallahassee, Florida [GOOD COPS - series] My 2mins of fame... :) David Osborne

As fiery debris rained down on them, two city cops rushed through a pair of Bronx homes engulfed in flames Sunday and helped rescue 12 people, including two infants. Officers Michael Welsh and Christopher Scott kicked down doors and screamed to wake people as the blaze devoured 374 Bronx Park Ave. in West Farms. After they emerged from the inferno, they busted into the neighboring house, which was already spewing plumes of black smoke into the air. The cops suffered minor injuries, but no one else was hurt because of their heroic efforts while on patrol about 9:15 a.m., officials...

A family's lawsuit against Casper police officers for using what they say was unnecessary force in a 2003 traffic stop will proceed to trial, according to a decision handed down Friday from Chief U.S. District Judge William Downes. The fact that Jennifer English and her two children were stopped on June 23, 2003, as they traveled on CY Avenue while officers searched for suspects in an armed robbery, and that she and her son were then handcuffed at gunpoint, is not in dispute, the order denying summary judgment in the suit says. But, the order continues, the question of whether...